For Gregory the Great, the Benedictine edition of Gregory of Tours, Alcuin, and Anselm, are cited from the Cursus Patro Gesta Stephani, Wendover, Trivet, and Richard of Devizes, are cited from theĮditions ofthe English Historical Society.īede's Opera Scientifica, Aldhelm, Lanfranc, Vitæ Becket, Epistolæ Becket,Įpistolæ Foliot, Bosham's Vita Becket, John of Salisbury, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, are cited from the editions of Dr. Maticus, Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, Newburgh, Hemingburgh, Gildas, Nennius, Bede ( except the Opera Scientifica), the Codex Diplo
Dean Milman's Histories ofĬhristianity and Latin Christianity, are cited as Milman's Christianity and Latin Christianity respectively. Old friend and colleague, Professor Brewer, is onlyĪ. The constant help I have received from my Tion and many criticisms, but for his notes on the lifeĪnd letters of Becket, which he liberally placed at myĭisposal. Study it, I am not only indebted for much informa Knowledge of our early history is known to all who Shirley of Oxford, whose accurate and wide Relate to Roman law and Anglo-Saxon antiquities. Kindly assisted me in some of those portions which I have to thank two of my own family for cor The courtesy of some who were strangers to me, theįirst edition of a first volume cannot fail to be imperįect. With all allowances, and in spite of all helpįrom the unwearied kindness of my friends, and from To acknowledge the assistance derived from other In which there was some doubt, or where I felt bound I have tried to limit my references to cases More general work on the Middle Ages would naturallyĮmbrace. Ing, I have left untouched many subjects, which a Self to English history, and to the period I am discuss Tinue it till the period of the Reformation, which isĪlready well occupied. Should it appear to answer its purpose, I hope to con We cannot disĬlaim our fathers without being untrue to ourselves. Men were not derived from Greece and Rome, or The ideas that regulate the life of gentle Philosophy, bear the traces of medieval workmanshipĪs plainly as the castles and churches that still testify Tution which we inherit, our common law, even our Ral want of material comforts, and from the imperfectĮducation of a pre-scientific period, are surely special Those who draw their view of mediævalĮngland from a few acts of violence, which theĬhronicles recorded for their enormity, from the gene All the facts ever quotedĪgainst us may be true, but they are not the whole View of England to our police reports, our pauperism,Īnd the ignorance or misery of a few districts underĮxceptional circumstances. The attacks of continental journalists, who confine their Trast the short-comings of one century with the excel Purely relative, or as having a certain absolute value.įurther, I believe we must estimate every age by Whether we use the terms barbarous and civilized as Inheriting or as destroying Roman civilization, and Of some moment, whether we regard the Saxons as Mate facts of life, are commonplaces, which cannotĮven be claimed for the present century. That Natureĭoes nothing violently, and that there is no greatĭifference between man and man as regards the ulti Principle that all changes in the constitution of soĬiety have been gradual and partial. Hume and Robertson are mainly referable to the I believe my own differences from the school of
Velopes, however unsound it may be in its principlesĪnd application, has had results of the last importance Genius, I am sure the theory of races which it de Thierry's " Conquest of England " a work of Of arrangement, and vivid narrative style that make Of the connection and interdependence of events, isīetter than none at all. Time to time to be reduced to order, for the mere pur I think, too, that the labours ofĪntiquarians, essayists, and philologists require from Want time or inclination to pursue English history asĪn exclusive study. Single volume, with a view to the large class who I haveĬondensed the history of twelve hundred years into a Make their writings invaluable to scholars. The elaborate treatment and profuse illustration which Kemble, and theirįollowers, have suffered in popular estimation from Of this apparent anomaly is, I believe, that the great Perhaps no period has been more profoundly studied, Results of enquiry into the early history of England. In the present volume I have tried to give the last Wir tragen die Lasten unserer Väter, wie wir ihr Gutes empfangen haben, und so leben die Menschen in der That in der ganzen Vergangenheit und Zukunft, und nirgend weniger als in der Gegenwart. AND PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
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